“On Friday 7-23-10 Laredo Webb informed that their county SWAT Team is conducting an operation in the Mines Rd. area. According to LT. Garcia with LSO (Laredo Sheriff Office) received a call from a ranch owner stating that the Zetas had taken over his ranch. As per the 17 (reporting person) he informed them that they stated La Compania (Zetas) was taking the ranch and no one was permitted on the ranch without permission. SO (Sheriff Office) will have an unmarked green Ford Taurus with two officers stationed at Los Compadres and a white Chevy Tahoe with two officers stationed at Mineral Rd. The LSO (Laredo Sheriff Office) will maintain surveillance in the area and advise if action is taken. Susp (suspect) Veh (vehicle) are described as a gray or silver Audi, a BLK (black) Escalade or Navigator and a van truck with a logo of a car wash spot free on the side. Border Patrol also has their response team on scene. Also known info of BMW’s and Corvettes entering and leaving the area. Auth LT Lichtenberger if assistance is requested LPD (Laredo Police Department) will secure the outer perimeter. (07/24/10 07:42:10 NR1873)”

Soon after her original report, the attacks began upon Kim and also on Dan from Digger’s Realm, who helped to spread Kim’s original story. The attacks came from the open borders groups, the lefties and even some on the right, who were quick to claim that this story was a “hoax” because Kim would not identify her source. Mainstream journalists do this all the time - report a story without an identified source - because the most explosive stories would risk the job or life of the source. If a reporter identifies this source against their wishes, do you think it would encourage others to leak this information in the future?

One of the most virulent attackers had an entry on BigGovernment.com, which is surprising, since Andrew Breitbart is himself a “citizen journalist”. The author of the editorial, Bob Owens, also writing for his own blog The Confederate Yankee, titled his piece “No, Texas Has Not Been Invaded”. Incredibly, Bob Owens did not do any of his own research to base his rebuttal upon. He simply decided that since Kimberly would not identify her source, that she had made it up. Really Bob? One has to wonder why someone who would attack other bloggers supposedly on the same side of an issue, is writing for BigGovernment in the first place. It seems Bob Owens might be more at home on Politico or Daily Kos from the way he attacked Kimberly and Dan.

And the SPLC, from their smug, self-righteous, racist perch in Alabama, declared this story a fake, without doing any of their own research whatsoever. Media Matters joined in the feeding frenzy with their uninformed dismissal of the story as well. While they pointed the finger at Kimberly, saying how could she know what was happening in Texas when she lived in San Diego - the same critics were also not in Texas! I enjoy watching these liars try to wipe the egg from their lying faces. I’m sure they will continue to claim it’s a hoax - because they will want to protect their lying asses from the truth and keep you from believing the truth as well.

You can read the backgrounder of these attacks over at Digger’s Realm - which Dan has named “LaredoGate” - a full 5 part report on the original story and the ensuing attack by both left and right on his and Kim’s reputations. Dan also delves into the apparent media coverup, starting with the Laredo Morning Times all the way up to Fox News, who refused to even give the story any air time whatsoever.

The original story spread like wildfire - as it SHOULD have - because the story is about a violent Mexican drug cartel that had crossed into the US and seized a ranch owned by a US citizen.

A second alleged Zeta hitman has been taken into custody in Brownsville, according federal officials.

Luis Alberto Blanco Flores, also known as “El Pelochas,” 29, is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.

Nina Pruneda, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman, said Blanco was arrested on July 23 during a joint operation that included ICE Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Border Patrol and Brownsville police
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According to court documents, Blanco was arrested for re-entering the country illegally after having been deported on Sept. 16, 2003. After Blanco concludes his pending legal matters with the U.S. government, he will be turned over to Mexican authorities, Pruneda said.

According to Mexican law enforcement officials, Blanco is affiliated with the Zetas criminal organization and worked under Arturo Castillo, also known as “El Apache.”

Castillo was arrested a day later in the same interagency operation on the charge of illegal entry and is also in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, Pruneda said. Castillo faces extradition to Mexico, she said.

Is this not very alarming that Zeta leaders have been arrested IN THE US and that maybe some ranches along the Texas border have been seized by the same drug cartel, even if only for a short time????? At what point do we say enough is enough and demand the security that we pay the Federal government for?

Another thing learned from this experience - as citizen journalists trying to find the truth - is that the mainstream media is desperate to discredit citizen bloggers. That fact was made quite clear as a result of the hysteria and claims of “hoax” that circulated throughout the blogosphere regarding this original story. The goal of outfits like the SPLC and Media Matters, is to confuse people so that they don’t know what is the truth and that part is working. If you can’t trust regular people who are trying to report the truth when they see it - you might as well stop reading news altogether because it will all just seem like fiction if you believe the lies of the propaganda machine

Critics have claimed that Governor Jan Brewer has picked this fight over SB1070 for political gain for her upcoming gubenatorial election campaign and now that claim might have some merit. Apparently, she made the statement supporting “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” on July 1st in Sedona, Arizona to the Sedona Men’s Republican Club.

“My plan is to tell the federal government to do their job, and their job is to secure our border,” Brewer said. “We’re going to get our border secure, and then we need to talk about what we can do about a comprehensive immigration reform package.”

Brewer said she supports immigration reform, but border security should come first. She said lawmakers have failed because they want immigration reform before tackling border security.

Apparently Governor Brewer does not realize that a large majority of Americans do NOT want to reward illegal alien behavior with any kind of amnesty. We don’t care what fancy name you want to give it - ANY path to legalization for those who came here illegally - either by sneaking across the border OR over staying a VISA - is simply encouragement for more to come here the same way.

Does she not realize that when President Reagan granted the 1986 Amnesty - we were told NEVER AGAIN would we grant amnesty to illegal aliens??? We were also told the border would be secured to stop the flow of illegal aliens. We know that promise has never been kept and that 1986 amnesty has caused illegal immigration to increase since then by 20 times! In 1986 we were dealing with only a million or so illegal aliens. Now we have 20 million! Americans are tired of being lied to and we do NOT want or need “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”.

We simply need to enforce ALL of the existing laws against illegal immigration - including employing, smuggling, aiding, abeting, or harboring illegal aliens. Prosecute the employers, the churches that give them Sanctuary, the cities that give them Sanctuary and put our troops on our OWN border to protect US instead of worrying about every other country in the world besides the US!

Please contact Governor Jan Brewer and tell her your you do NOT support “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” now or ever!

SECONDLY - Ramirez was here illegally. He does not get “civil rights”. The very nature of that word implies civil as in citizen. Here is the definition of CIVIL RIGHTS from the American Heritage Dictionary:

civil rights
pl.n. The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and by subsequent acts of Congress, including civil liberties, due process, equal protection of the laws, and freedom from discrimination.
adj. or civ·il-rights (sĭv’əl-rīts’)

Of or relating to such rights or privileges: civil rights legislation.

Of or relating to a political movement, especially during the 1950s and 1960s, devoted to securing equal opportunity and treatment for members of minority groups.

So either Governor Ed Rendell does not know this about “civil rights” or he is DISTORTING THE LAW to pander to the likes of MALDEF and the National Council of LA RAZA (the race).

Luis Ramirez was NOT, as they characterize him in this story, a “Mexican immigrant”. Those kind come through the INS and apply for citizenship and Visas. No - he was a Mexican ILLEGAL ALIEN who knowingly broke US Immigration Laws to live in the community of Shenandoah, and strangely enough, found EMPLOYMENT there even though the unemployement rate for CITIZENS in Shenandoah was higher than the national average. He had not just arrived here - he had lived here illegally for SIX YEARS.

Perhaps you might like to call Governor Ed Rendell and let him know what you think of his distortion of our laws in favor of illegal aliens and deliberately persecuting US citizens at the behest of MALDEF.

Just some recent hate mail I got from my posts here - this one apparently related to the post of Robert Chad Barela - illegal alien thug wannabe from his cousin “Joey James“:

Yea well fuck you, chad is my cousin and if you say 1 more thing about him ill hack ur website and shut it down.i hate people like u thinking that illegal aliens are not supposed to be here do u know what this country is founded on, christopher columbus was a spaniard. this whole country was founded by immagrants so piss off

Does this count as “one more thing” ? Silly me for thinking ILLEGAL ALIENS are not supposed to be here… I guess people like you think “no human is illegal” - why don’t you try that in Mexico and see what happens? Funny how turds like you bash the United States for having IMMIGRATION LAWS when EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD HAS IMMIGRATION LAWS AND SOME OF THEM EVEN ENFORCE THEM.

Go ahead and hack my site. I have your IP address and will gladly send it off to the FBI. In this country, unlike the one you are apparently from, there is freedom of speech and I am free to have an OPINION and my OPINION of your cousin is that he is a scumbag thug WANNABE.